Warning for latest nvidea drivers!!
 

If you are using the very latest nvidea drivers, STOP.
They have been pulled from their site as they seem to be causing GPU fans to not ramp up when needed causing GPU's to overheat and maybe fail.
Rollback to the last 196 drivers until the new ones are fixed.

Thanks for the heads-up. Nobody wants to fry their card. :)

Speaking of drivers, I will probably stick with my Ati Catalyst 9.11 drivers until I see some drivers from 2010 that has something to do with Silent Hunter 5.

9.11 drivers = november 2009
10.3 drivers = march 2010

Thx for this info Barso! This is still last year for my 280GTX anyway but I don`t want to do an earlier upgrade :O:

Thanks for the Heads-Up, Barso! :up:

So 196.75 is okay?

It seems to affect these cards:

GeForce 9800GT, 9800GTX and GTS 250. May affect others to.

Source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20100305/forc...-geforce-card/

The drivers works fine with my GTX285.

Okay, my version is the bad one. Rolling back as we speak!
Thanks for the heads up!

And its not the first time this happening :salute:

Good thing I let Rivatuner control the fan. :lol:

So 196.21 will work ?

It seems so, it's the latest version listed on the nvidia site. 75 is indeed no langer available for download.
Just installed and everything seems to be normal.

Thanks for info :salute:

Wow thanks I have a Gforc 260 and never noticed anything. But I went to the 196.34 drivers.

These will bring the Shadow slowdown worse though... So remember to just shut the shadows off.. I already did anyway.

But I mean quality control has gone to the crapper with computer companies lately.

I hope they are responsible for replacing people burned out cards? Lucky it was not mine becuase... Well I have ways.... :rotfl2:

Bump and thanks! I have the 9800. Nice way to generate some business for Nvida. Plant a bad driver. :hmmm: Geez.

196.75 is the bad driver...currently the Nvida site shows 196.21 as the driver to use.

Yeah but that driver is bugged too, you can't overclock your GPU with that driver. The .35 driver is the same driver with that bug fixed. :cool:

Wow, I'm glad that I am so on top of driver updates that I managed to install 196.75 in the short time that it was up for download... :DL

Luckily, I haven't played anything on the computer since I'm consumed with Bad Company 2 on the 360, and, well, I'm still not buying SHV due to the OSP. :cry:

Thanks for the heads up! :up:
Going back to .34 driver.

Thanks and 'Phew'
Saw that the new drivers were available and downloaded them, but it was late so decided to install them today.
Don't think I'll bother now...

Hello
Same here, thanks for telling us. ;)